What is r/communism?

[Hiero]

What is 'r/communism'.

[Taters]

What is 'r/communism'.

www.reddit.com/r/communism

It's mostly MLM territory, as far as I can tell.

[Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist]

www.reddit.com/r/communism

It's mostly MLM territory, as far as I can tell.

It used to be, now it's mostly a turf war between Marcyists and Maoist-Third Worldists, with MLM types getting caught in the middle because apparently we're all a bunch of "Trotskyists" :laugh:

[Taters]

It used to be, now it's mostly a turf war between Marcyists and Maoist-Third Worldists, with MLM types getting caught in the middle because apparently we're all a bunch of "Trotskyists" :laugh:

Hahaha, clearly it's been a while since I've been on there! They do love their sectarianism there, that much hasn't changed.

[Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist]

Hahaha, clearly it's been a while since I've been on there! They do love their sectarianism there, that much hasn't changed.

Well they used to have strict Anti-Sectarian rules. The problem with them is that when revisionists say completely stupid, inane bullshit, that we have to write a dialectical materialist criticism of their views instead of telling them to shut up. So while it used to be Anti-Revisionist territory the revisionists won by systematically spamming the place with North Korea threads until every anti-revisionist was banned for slipping up at some point and speaking up against the infection. Then the M-TWists came in and since so few people give a shit about their ideology no one was able to criticize it in a Marxist way, so it was ignored until all the M-TWist realized that they had a platform for their bullshit and infected the place like glaucoma. So now both tendencies spam the place with North Korea trap threads and MTWist trap threads to lure actual Marxists into dismissing their bullshit so they will get banned for being sectarian. It's quite a pity, the Anti-Sectarian rule is a really good concept it's just that we can't give a platform for tendencies that are counter-revolutionary. I'd love to see it adopted here if we could manage to avoid the mistakes of r/communism. r/communism used to be where I would go to avoid the shit posting and one liners that you get on here.

[The Jay]

Well they used to have strict Anti-Sectarian rules. The problem with them is that when revisionists say completely stupid, inane bullshit, that we have to write a dialectical materialist criticism of their views instead of telling them to shut up. So while it used to be Anti-Revisionist territory the revisionists won by systematically spamming the place with North Korea threads until every anti-revisionist was banned for slipping up at some point and speaking up against the infection. Then the M-TWists came in and since so few people give a shit about their ideology no one was able to criticize it in a Marxist way, so it was ignored until all the M-TWist realized that they had a platform for their bullshit and infected the place like glaucoma. So now both tendencies spam the place with North Korea trap threads and MTWist trap threads to lure actual Marxists into dismissing their bullshit so they will get banned for being sectarian. It's quite a pity, the Anti-Sectarian rule is a really good concept it's just that we can't give a platform for tendencies that are counter-revolutionary. I'd love to see it adopted here if we could manage to avoid the mistakes of r/communism. r/communism used to be where I would go to avoid the shit posting and one liners that you get on here.

That would be an horrible idea. The 'anti-sectarian' rules on there forbade the criticism of any socialist leader of the past and the rules as to what is 'marxist' were and are completely arbitrary. The recommended readings are all of stalinist origin.

Anyway, if the working class pushes back against the capitalists and the jobs move to a weaker segment of the global working class that is not the fault of the workers trying to improve their own lives. It is not bourgeois to wish to improve your own life, it should be welcomed. Criticizing people for such is what makes people have the impression that the left is lazy and snobbish.